Brooder.



No. 808,808. PATBNTBD JAN.,2,'1900.

BROODER.

APPLIUATION FILED 0018.8. 1805.

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BROODER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 2, 1906.

. Application filed January 3,1905. Serial No. 239,533.

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Be it known that I, CHARLES J. BECKER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and State ofCalifornia, have invented new and useful Improvements in Broeders, ofwhich the following is a specification.

My invention relates to devices for the articial rearing of youngchickens or other birds, and has for its obj ect the production ofa-brooder in which the heat, light, and fresh air are uniformlydistributed.

A 'further obj ect is to provide a brooder in which the hover isseparated from the nurseries byllexible partitions, whichprevents thecrowding and huddling together of the young birds.

I accomplish these objects by the device described herein andillustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 'is aperspective view of my improved brooder. Fig. 2 is a verticallongitudinal section thereof. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the heatingdevice with parts broken away and parts in section. Fig. 4 is afragmentary perspective of one of the flexible partitions which separatethe hover Jfrom the nurseries.

In the drawings, 5 is a rectangular boxlike structure inclosed on allsides and divided by a floor 6 into an upper and lower chamber. Theupper chamber is subdivided, by means of flexible partitions 7, intothree compartments, consisting of a central compartment or hover 8 andend compartments or nurseries 9 and 10. The hover has a roof 11 andhinged doors 12 and 13, controlled by adjustable straps opening into it,the door 13 having a glass in it for the admission of light to thehover. Attached to the sides of the roof ofthe hover are hinged covers14 and 15, which have glass in them and cover the nurseries. Thesecovers can be raised up, and thereby permit a freer circulation of airand facilitate the cleaning of the brooder. The opposite ends of thebrooder have screencovered openings 16 and 17 for the passage out offoul air from the brooder, and the front sides have openings 18 and 19,having hinged adjustable doors 20 and 21, permitting ingress and egressto and Jfrom the nurseries by means of stepped runways 22.

Attached to the under sides of the outside edges of the hover-roof aretransverse braces 23, to which is attached the adjustable partitions 7.These partitions consist of a swinging cross-board 25, which is hung d1-rectly beneath and attached to the brace 23 by means of a strip of cavas26. This canvas is held in place by cleats 27, which are attached to thecross-board 25 and brace 23, thus forming a hinge 28. Attachedv to thelower edge of this swinging cross-board is a piece of felt 29, whichextends transversely across the brooder and which hangs downwardly towithin a short distance of the i'loor. This piece of felt has a seriesof vertical slits for the purpose lof permitting the easy ingress andegress to or from the nurseries. Attachedv at the center and near thetop oi' the brooder on the cross-braces 23 are eyes 30, which engagewith a hook 31 to permit of the adjustment of the partition as thechicks or f birds increase in size.

The lower division oi' the brooder beneath the Hoor is provided for thefresh-air supply and heating apparatus, which consists in this instanceof a lamp 32, seated on a transverse spring 33, which crosses thebrooder in the center. Projecting upwardly through a hole 34 in thefloor of the brooder and into the hover is a cylindrical fresh-air drum`35, closed at its upper end and provided with a number of heat-outlets36. Mounted inside of this cylinder and extending below the licor-lineand seated on the wick-holder of the lamp is a cylindrical metal chimney37, which extendsupwardly to within a short distance of the top of thefresh-air drum. This metal chimney has heat-oultets 38 and 39, whichpass through the' fresh-air drum near the top and connect with radiatingpipes 40, which distribute the heat evenly and uniformly throughout thehover. These radiating pipes are connected with the roof of the hover byventpipes 41, which extend upwardly toward the roof of the hover anddischarge through the roof by means of small vpipes 42, attached to thetop of the vents 41.

An opening 43, having a hinged door 44, is provided in thefront wall ofthe lower division of the brooder to provide access to the lamp andregulator. This heating device may be connected with any heat-regulatingmeans. In this instance I have shown a vertical cylindrical tube 45extending through the floor and roof of the brooder and adjacent to thefresh-air drum, through which extends a rod 46, which is in contact witha trip on the wick and to the outer end of which is IOC mounted thecounterweight 47. A thermometer 48 may be placed at any convenient pointin the hover to .ascertain the temperature.

ln operation the lighted lamp is placed in 5 position on the spring 33,which holds it in close contact with the metal chimney37,which conductsthe heat upwardly and around the radiating pipes 40 to the vents 41,through which pass all the noxious gases created by the lamp, and at thesame time the heat from the chimney continually draws fresh air from theoutside through openings 49 in the lower front wall of the brooder. Thisair is heated as it passes around the chimney and is discharged throughthe outlets 36, thereby producing additional warmth for the hover and atthe same time creating a circulation of pure warm air through the hoverand nurseries and dispelling the foul air created by the fowls out ofthe screened openings 16 and 17 of the nurseries. It will thus be seenthat I have produced a brooder in which the heat can at all times beuniformly and evenly maintained and byvmeans of a free circulation offresh air to the lamp keeps the lamp-font cool and free from any dangerof explosion. The hover having no corners prevents the crowd.- ing andhuddling together which is common in young fowls, the 'Iiexiblepartitions giving away whenanyattempt at crowding is started and forcingthe fowls into the nurseries.

Having described my invention, what l claim as new, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is-

1. A brooder consisting of an upper and lower chamber formed into aseries of compartments by means of adjustable flexible slittedpartitions, said partitions forming unobstructed communication with theother chambers; heat-generating means located in said lower chambercommunicating with heat-radiating means in said upper chamber to heatthe same.

2. A brooder consisting of an upper and lower chamber, adjustableflexible slitted partitions in said upper chamber dividing it into aseries of compartments consisting of a central compartment and endcompartments, said end compartments having hinged roofs and providedwith air-outlets and communicating means, said central compartmenthaving in its front and rear walls hinged adjustable doors andcontaining the heat-distributing means, said lower chamber havingheatjusted lamp having a metal chimney extendmg upwardly into saidcentral compartment generating means, consisting of a spring-adandprovided with heat-distributing outlets, said outlets communicating bymeans of metal tubes with heat-radiating tubes having outlet-ventsterminating outside the central chamber.

3. A brooder consisting of an upper and lower chamber, adjustableflexible slitted partitions in said upper chamber dividing the same intoa series of compartments consisting of a central compartment and endcompartments, said end compartments having hinged roofs and providedwith air-outlets and communicating means; said central compartmenthaving in its front and rear walls hinged adjustable doors andcontaining the heat-distributing means; a springsupported lamp in thelower chamber; a metal chimney having heat-distributing outlets at thetop thereof seated on said lamp and extending upwardly into said uppercompartment and closed at its upper end; a closed cylindrical fresh-airdrum open at its lower end and closed at its upper end and having nearthe upper end a series of heatoutlets; said fresh-air drum forming meansto supply heated fresh air for the central and end compartments; metaltubes extending through the fresh-air drum and communicating with thechimney, heat-radiating tubes having outlet-vents terminating outsidethe central chamber, said radiating tubes being in communication withthe tubes leading from the chimney.

4. ln a brooder heat-generating means, said means consisting of aspring-supported lamp exposed to cool-air currents, in combination witha metal chimney closed at its upper end having heat-outlet openingslocated near the top of said metal chinmey; a cylindrical fresh-air drumsurrounding said chimney closed at its upper end, said freshair drumhaving a series of heat-outlets at its upper end, metal tubescommunicating with said chimney and extending through the airdrum;radiating tubes having outlet-vents terminating outside the roof of thecentral compartment, said radiating tubes communicating with the tubesleading from the chimney.

In witness that I claim the foregoing l have hereunto subscribed my namethis 23d day of December, 1904.

CHARLES J. BECKER.

Vitnesses:

EDMUND A. STRAUsE, G. E. HARPHAM.

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